Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-21

A woman from Windsor, Canada, was ar
rested at Detroit, Monday, while trying Il
dispose of S3S 900 in L. S. bonds.
Only four times during the past fort,
years has the Hudson river been open foI
navigation at this date.
In an interview with reporter, on Tues
lay, DIR. Mackenzie said that complete re-
covery of the German crown prince was no
impossible.
An uncoutirmed rumor is current that a
revolt broke cut on board the convict shil
|Orne, bound for Cayenne, and that eleven
ring leaders were shot.
The express train on the Chesapeake i
|Ohio railroad struck buggy at the turnpik,
crossing Monday night, killing two and mcr
tally wounding two of the occupants.
Railroad wreckers threw freight train of
the track of the Norfolk and Southern roat
bat Tunis switch, Monday night, by placing
steel rail across the road 1t killed two mel
Fand injured three.
Capt. VIM. c. Dickey of Portland diet
at Rockland, Tuesday morning from injuries
received by falling down stairs, fracturin,
his skull and rupturing the blood vessels a
Ithe base of the brain He was ~ years old
Several army officers on furlough at Pestl
Ihave been ordered To return to their garri
sons in Croatia Immediately. A number o
officers in the reserve corps have been order
led to settle their affairs so as to be in readi
.ness to Join their regiments.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of tn,
London Daily News says Gen. Won Schwein
ltz, the German ambassador, had intended Il
stay in Berlin for the Christmas holidays
but he was advised from Fredricheruhe t.
return to St. Petersburg Immediately for i'm
|portant negotiations.
Testimony was taken on Monday on tn
petition to compel the Susquehanna Goa
Company to recover the bodies of the twenty
six men entombed by the caving in of tn
1Nanticoke mine. The case is unique on
|and the result will be awaited with interes
Iby the mine owners.
The Herald's Ottawa, Ont, special say
IA sensason has been caused by the discover
that Henry J. Morgan, chief clerk in tn
State department has committed felony il
altering the date of a check by which h
received two months pay instead of one
Morgan is well known in fashionable circle
Hin the dominion and at Newport and Old Or
chard Beach.
A number of business men have formed
d plan to build a telephone line fror
New York to Chicago, to be open to sui
.scribers ouly This il done because of tn
9belief of business men that the Wester
N MON, now that it has absorbed its most dan
Hgerous rival, the Baltimore and Ohio, vii
1after their contracts expire, largely increas
the price of wires which these men use nov
A special from Chicago says that a synd
cate which was to buy the Chicago Time,
has been brokep up, and that Clinton
Snowdon will manage the paper after jar
.uary lst. He represents number of we
known business and newspaper men. Th
Z purchase price is one million dollars. tn
paper will be entirely independent in char
gacter.
! The Chief of Police on Monday foun
bonds to the amount of $4,000 secreted III
Ter the floor of house recently occupied b
burglars who were captured here last week
The bonds are part of the S55, 900 stolen
arompkinsville, Ky, few weeks ago, whe
. that town was sacked and burned. A tel,
Egram from Glasgow, Ky, states that tn
burglars, it is expected, will be lynched ,
soon as they reach Tompkinsville.